San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-03-11
LATEST TELEGRAPH NEWS
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| CONTRACTS Tor lnulan supplies aWhrueu'
Gladstone will lead the opposition to
the coercion bill In parliament.
German budget passed the reichstag
| on it's first reading.
Sculptor Ward says he WAS not COM
missioned to make q statue OF Beecher.
Senator Sherman says he is travelling
In Florida for pleasure, not politics.
Steamer Reihu, from Bremen to Bali.
more, stranded on Hog Island.
Beecher's will read yesterday. Mrs.
Beecher is provided for.
Dan Jerwell, the Missouri murderer to
be hanged today, Is respited.
Christine Nilsson has married her
Count Mirsndi and will probably retire
from the stage.
The septenate bill passes, and the
| army effective force Is extended TO
March 81, 1894.
The shah OF Persia makes a grant Of a
plot OF ground containing $4,000 square
yards for an American hospital.
March agricultural reports show that
80 per cent. of wheat and corn 10 In first
hands.
Bill in house requiring registration Of
voters in cities reported fsvorably by
committee.
Unfsyorable report on bill limiting
hiring OF convicts to planters was adop-
ted by the house.
Bill extending time of drouth relief
committee passed the house yester-
day.
WISE Jack and Denton counties will
he created rs new judicial district by
the senate; also Tarrant county.
An accidental explosion of melinite,
the new explosive, killed and wounded
several people in the Belfort arsenal.
French chambers refuse to impose
tax Of francs per kilo on imported
wheat.
Consolidated - Northwestern, Western
and Southwestern Passenger associs-
tiOns, at Chicago, yesterday.
First Comptroller Durham decides the
$40, for the militia is not available
until next July LIST.
Senator Coke was in Fort Worth yes
terday and interviewed: gave his views
on public affairs.
Beecher's remains were taken to Ply
mouth church yesterday and will lie In
state until final interment.
Capt. Jas. B. Eads, the great engineer
of st. Louis, died at Nassau, Bahama
Islands, on the Sth.
Colonel p. b. Means, ex-member Of
North Carolina legislature, COW hiGed
editor Sheriff., of the Concord, N. c.,
Times, yesterday. Political difficulties.
Raymond, ex-treasurer of Ottawa.
Cansua, is short $4,000; Minigau, ex-
sheriff, is short $25. 900; BaTtel, ex pro.
bate clerk, is short $4,000.
Nina Van Zandt Spies was permitted
to play checkers with her nOze through
the bars Of her proxy husbands sage on
yesterday. Her first visit since the proxy
marriage.
The Baltimore and Ohio becomes part
Of the Sully system OF railroads. This
gives this trunk line $4,000 miles Of track
and controls all the anthracite coal in the
country.
Committee Of Inquiry rs to methods of
The executive department met at Wash
ington. Senator COckrill, chairman,
with clerks and stenO4 raphers will col
lect the Information required.
Trafficing in navy yard secrets 10
London by draughtsman ferry or any
body else will be stopped. The admiralty
is indignant
English government keep mum con-
corning the parties to whom draugbts-
man Terry, of the Chatham naval yard,
revealed secrets and furnished plans.
Cardinal Gibbons says that his com
municatiOn to the ROmon POntiff WAS
confidential concerning the K of l.
matter, but that he Is an opponent of
souless corporations.
John and 8 muel Dunmead, of a fam
lily of eccentric misers in New Bruins
wick, N. j., have been arrested on sus-
piciOn of causing the death OF Cornelis
and ROcert Dunmead, whose decomposed
bodies were lying in their hoyel under
ground.
Houston met the refrigerator commit
tee yesterday, showed her shops and
factories, special trained them 10 Clin-
ton to see the twelye-foOt channel, re-
turned and made her proposition, to do
nate all land and take One-fourth stock.
Committee Is In Austin and reports
finally next Monday.
General Buffers published testimony
before the Irish land commission creates
a sensation. He says the law was all
on the side Of the rich and that 1t would
be serious matter to attempt force to
prevent the tenants assooiating to-
Qether for mutual defense, His testi-